Donations to the Conservative Party between July and September totalled £4,060,633, including £54,000 from Stuart Wheeler (pictured) – his largest single donation to the party since February 2006. A more detailed list of significant donations to Tory coffers is below.

Meanwhile, the Labour Party raked in £7,569,090 – although £2.25million of that came from loans (from Lord Sainsbury and Sir Gulam Noon) being translated into gifts.

The vast proportion of the Labour donations come from the unions, but the list also included gifts from several well known names including JK Rowling (£1million), Nancy Dell’Olio (£15,000), Alastair Campbell (£12,500), Tony Blair (£7,500), Sir Alex Ferguson (£7,500), Geoffrey Robinson (£7,934.40), David Blunkett (£5,000 to the Scottish Labour Party),

The Lib Dems received £599,177, including £10,495 each from Sir Elton John and David Furnish.

During the same period, the Greens and UKIP netted £188,000 and £33,663 respectively.